Man admits to forging checks

CURTICE – A Williston man admitted he forged an elderly woman’s signature on checks and took $925 from her bank account, the sheriff’s office reported.

The man has not been charged, but the case against him and a woman who might have been involved likely will be presented to a grand jury for possible charges in Ottawa County Common Pleas Court, according to an Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office report.

The woman was in a nursing home and the man and woman were helping care for her husband at the couple’s home. The couple found the man and woman through a friend and did not go through a caregiver agency, they told the sheriff’s office.

The couple told the sheriff’s office the man and woman had driven the couple’s cars to do errands. But the man and woman don’t have valid driver’s licenses because of their criminal histories, according to the report.

When a sergeant confronted the man, he admitted to forging the woman’s signature but said he had already paid back $400, according to the report. The man and woman were told to have no contact with the couple.